Charlotte lands on ranking of nation’s top tech towns

CHARLOTTE — The Queen City’s status as a “tech town” has been bolstered a bit this year. The Charlotte metro moved up a notch on CompTIA’s 2020 Tech Town Index, landing at No. 5 — up one spot from No. 6 in 2019.

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Charlotte has appeared on the ranking all three years that CompTIA, a nonprofit for the global technology industry and workforce, has released the index. It made a splash in 2018, taking the No. 1 spot.

“Charlotte made its debut at the top of the Tech Town Index in 2018, and while it has fallen a bit in rank, the diversifying tech scene continues to drive the economy in this desirable region,” CompTIA stated in the report.

CompTIA’s annual index is meant to provide IT workers and tech professionals guidance on the best places that offer both opportunity and livability. It identifies 20 metro areas with populations of at least 250,000 where demand for tech workers is the greatest. The cities are then ranked based on cost of living, number of postings for open IT positions and projected job growth over the next year as well as the next five years.

See the full story here to learn how Charlotte fared on multiple metrics — and how its overall ranking compares to Raleigh.

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